Inscription and cover page of "Rifle and Infantry Tactics, Vol. I." The tome is touted as being "the only copy-right edition." It has a notice from W. J. Hardee, Colonel, Confederate States Army, inside the front cover. The notice was written from...

It is Sunday and brother Ben was captured the first day of fighting at Gettysburg. Nannie thinks that those prisoners who are able to write to their family should at least mention other captured prisoners as well. Ed Bringhurst did so. Ben Hering...

Driver served initially in Co. G, 51st Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. He escaped Fort Donelson and was discharged in 1863. He later joined Co. B, 7th Tenn. Cav., CSA. The image shows him wearing a reunion era uniform and cap. Although he served as a...

Hand-drawn map on linen showing the locations of army posts, Sioux Indian agencies, and distances and transportation routes in the Dakotas during the Indian Wars of the 1860s and 1870s. Area shown extends from the Mississippi River in Minnesota to...

It is Sunday and brother Ben was captured the first day of fighting at Gettysburg. Nannie thinks that those prisoners who are able to write to their family should at least mention other captured prisoners as well. Ed Bringhurst did so. Ben Hering...

Parole issued to Cpl. Morris at Gainesville, Ala., where most of Gen. N. B. Forrest's troopers were paroled. At the time Cpl. Morris was residing in Fort Hindman, Ky. The parole permits him "to return to his home, not to be disturbed by the United...

"A map of the British American plantations, extending from Boston in New England to Georgia; including all the back settlements in the respective provinces as far as the Mississippi." An exceptional map of the American colonies and backcountry...

Carte-de-visite of Monroe Pointer, who joined Co. L, 154th Tenn. Inf., in Memphis, March 1862. He was wounded in the neck at Shiloh and ended the war as a conscript at the Grenada, Miss., supply depot, May 1865.